"yoking, harnessing") for spiritual exercise: "When the five organs of perception become still, together with the mind, and the intellect ceases to be active: that is called the highest state. The Katha Upanishad is also notable for first introducing the term yoga (lit. the objects perceived by the senses are the chariot's path.the five senses ( indriya) are the chariot horses.
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The Katha has some passages in common with the Gita. It consists of two chapters ( adhyāyas), each divided into three sections ( vallis) that contain between 15 and 29 verses ( ślokas) apiece. It figures as number 3 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. It contains passages that suggest contact with Buddhist ideas, so was likely composed after the fifth century BCE. It is associated with the Cāraka-Kaṭha school of the Black Yajurveda, and is grouped with the Sutra period of Vedic Sanskrit. The Katha Upanishad ( Devanagari: कठ उपनिषद्) ( Kaṭhopaniṣad, also Kāṭhaka), also titled "Death as Teacher", is one of the mukhya ("primary") Upanishads commented upon by Shankara.